Girnų Giesmės – Bevardės Salos

The mysterious album "Bevardės Salos" (Nameless Islands) jumps a bit back and forth between long cold drones, bubbling ambience or intense pulses and walls of sound. Tracks like the opener are aural assaults that produce a thick and dense atmosphere, overwhelming yet distant, focused yet abstract. They prod your senses relentlessly as they appear to grow in intensity. In direct contrast, the second piece is decidedly ambient in nature, conveying the image of a large ship helplessly drifting on the tide, its sails torn to shreds after a stormy night fraught with danger. Other tracks are more experimental and some introduce rhythmic pulses of twisted and elaborate machinery. There is no distinct theme for the album; you are free to compose your own narrative through interpretation and imagination. Strongly recommended.